[OSM-talk] Google Street View copyright question

[Roy Wallace]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jonathan
Bennett<openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
> There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article,
> and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse in another
> database.

Is there a difference between
1) using one fact from a newspaper article to use in another database, and
2) using one fact from a database to use in another database?

Can you clarify exactly what that difference is why one is legal while
the other is not (if that is indeed what you're implying)?

> It's the same principle that allows Wikipedia to get away with
> getting co-ordinates for individual articles by taking them from a map,
> and us doing the same for every point of interest on the map.

Can you clarify what you mean, please? What is legal, what is illegal, and why?